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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
53
Rank:
Lieutenant Colonel
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Pioneers
Division:
107th Bn.
Birth:
October 23, 1863
Fort Pelly, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
October 20, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXVIII. B. 7.
Additional information
Father of Mary Campbell, Jack Campbell and Christina Waddy (nee Campbell)
and Eleanor Knott, of Gilbert Plains, Manitoba.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Colonel Glenlyon Campbell
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Photo of GLENLYON CAMPBELL
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Photo of GLENLYON CAMPBELL
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Newspaper Clipping
In honoured memory. -
Grave marker
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War Diary
Lieut. Colonel Glen Campbell, Officer Commanding the 107th Pioneer Battalion is reported "evacuated to to C.C.S. (Casualty Clearing Station) on Tuesday October 9, 1917. -
War Diary
The arrival of the 107th Pioneer Battalion, under the command of Lieut. Colonel Glen Campbell, is recorded in the April 1917 battalion war diary. The unit left England on Sunday February 25th and was at it's destination in France on Tuesday 27 February 1917. -
Document
The death of Lieut. Colonel Glen Campbell, Officer Commanding the 107th Pioneer Battalion is reported as "Died in Hospital" in the the October 1917 Battalion War Diary (Appendix B). -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Cabana to Campling. Microform Sequence 17; Volume Number 31829_B016726. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 161. Page 705 of 1024 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Brantford Expositor 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province January 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star c. 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Free Press Prairie Farmer newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 212 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
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